The New York Review of Books - USA (2021-03-25)

March 25, 2021/ Volume LXVIII, Number 5 Darryl Pinckney: The Education of Barack Obama Marina Warner on Mermaids Dan Chiasson on ...

CLOTH | 9781487508425 CLOTH | 9781487508951 “A timely and enlightening book on how to bring our whole selves to work. David Weit ...

Contents 4 Regina Marler The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff 8 Boris Dralyuk Poem 9 Fintan O’Toole ...

4 The New York Review The Emergency Everywhere Regina Marler The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts. Catapult, 260 pp., $16.95 (paper ...

March 25, 2021 5 Princeton University Press supports #ChoosetoChallenge International Women’s Day 2021 ...

6 The New York Review going through that again.” The narra- tor thinks, but does not say, that she also remembers driving throug ...

March 25, 2021 7 Postprint Books and Becoming Computational N. KATHERINE HAYLES “The profound insights in Postprint show what pr ...

8 The New York Review but also edges into fantasy. As a child, Ruthie senses “unseen beings” watch- ing her and one day smells s ...

March 25, 2021 9 To Hell with Unity Fintan O’Toole They had a better class of insult at Cath- olic boys’ prep schools in the 195 ...

10 The New York Review sideshow or a distraction, but rather as the foundational act for the new regime. Everybody knew that Tru ...

March 25, 2021 11 order that climate change should be re- garded as “an essential element of US foreign policy and national secu ...

12 The New York Review The People We Know Best Evan Kindley Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson, R ...

March 25, 2021 13 Boaster, the Coward, the Oligarch, and the Slanderer. Here, for instance, is the Gross Man: The Gross Man is t ...

14 The New York Review of one novel and demand another”: they’re rarely content to remain minor. Balzac didn’t invent the recurr ...

March 25, 2021 15 Splash Marina Warner Merpeople: A Human History by Vaughn Scribner. Reaktion, 318 pp., $27. In l819 the French ...

16 The New York Review anthology such as The Penguin Book of Mermaids (2019), for which the fairy- tale scholar Cristina Bacchil ...

March 25, 2021 17 Cowboy Graves : Three Novellas by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Penguin Press ...

18 The New York Review connections across the major novels and stories he published between Nazi Literature in the Americas (199 ...

March 25, 2021 19 poignant, elliptical novel about family life under the dictatorship. The rest of “Fatherland” sweeps us back i ...

20 The New York Review A Gift for the Long Game Darryl Pinckney A Promised Land by Barack Obama. Crown, 751 pp., $45. Barack Oba ...